Historical past writing has been an almost-exclusive area reserved for historians and other people of authority. That’s what prompted Augustin Remond to start out Revue Histoire, which interprets as Historical past Assessment.

Revue Histoire is a web site that gives an area for college students and lovers to write down about historical past. It invitations folks to look at the previous by way of a contemporary and standard lens, educating readers and offering them with the abilities to investigate info and make knowledgeable selections.

Because the web site’s major viewers is audio system of French, Augustin hosts the web site on Hostinger’s information middle in France. This fashion, Revue Histoire presents one of the best efficiency to its guests whereas retaining website administration and maintenance easy and intuitive.

For the Reader and the Author

Augustin was a graduate pupil of Historical past on the College of Angers. With prior web site creation expertise, he created a venture known as NoTimeStore together with his classmates initially of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The objective was to share tutorial content material in an accessible means and to maintain busy in the course of the lockdown.

As time glided by, Augustin’s associates began to go their very own methods, placing the venture on pause. However after ending his research, Augustin determined to revive the location since he noticed a requirement for historical past content material.

Initially, he didn’t anticipate a lot. He simply wished to check out his group administration abilities and problem the concept that solely consultants ought to write historical past items. In the end, he managed to encourage folks to become involved in historical past writing.

“The target is to coach readers and assist them grow to be incorruptible by lovely however fully false concepts,” he says. “Revue Histoire supplies assets about historical past writing, so folks can discover ways to write high quality historical past articles.”

The group is open – anybody can apply to be a author or an editor by way of the web site. This runs in the identical vein because the ‘Democratize Publishing’ precept of WordPress – the platform Augustin used to construct Revue Histoire’s web site.

Historical past for Everybody

On the time of writing this text, 23 volunteers contribute to Revue Histoire, with Augustin overseeing the weblog and serving as chief editor. One other volunteer helps him to test the spelling.

As soon as somebody joins the group, Augustin explains the principles and methodology in order that they’ll observe the identical high quality requirements. This contains familiarizing them with WordPress, website positioning, and Revue Histoire’s writing pointers. Then, he supplies suggestions on their articles.

All these efforts consequence within the web site’s content material being rigorously researched, with correct media licensing and bibliographic sources in place.

Most articles are comparatively brief, round 750 to 1,000 phrases. It is because Augustin needs the web site to be a dependable useful resource for individuals who need to study one thing simply and rapidly.

Apart from, Revue Histoire’s present editors are largely nonetheless studying. Revue Histoire runs on a non-profit foundation the place everybody volunteers, so Augustin doesn’t need to put an excessive amount of on the manufacturing facet.

“The thought is to be a group. If you wish to do one article monthly, you do one; if you wish to do extra, you do extra. I don’t push folks – when you be a part of a group like ours, the purpose is solely to take part,” Augustin explains.

He claims WordPress is nice for managing consumer entry for collective work like this. In truth, it’s WordPress’ fully-customizable nature and built-in collaboration instruments that made him select this content material administration system after attempting out another platforms.

Optimizing the Current to Protect the Previous

These days, Revue Histoire focuses on 4 lesser-known historic subjects: historic songs, girls’s historical past, historic pictures, and abortion legal guidelines around the globe. The editorial group delivers the content material in an easy-to-understand type to draw extra readers.

“To deliver added worth, we synthesize info obtainable on-line with what can solely be present in books. It differentiates us from different historical past web sites,” explains Augustin.

He additionally applies website positioning methods to spice up site visitors.

“I do key phrase analysis with Semrush. I additionally use Google instruments like Google Search Console and Google Analytics to trace vital metrics. We usually have greater than 100 clicks a day.”

When requested about Revue Histoire’s principal challenges up to now, Augustin remembers when an organization accused him of utilizing licensed photographs incorrectly.

“We tried to make use of photographs with Artistic Commons licensing as a lot as potential as a result of it permits sharing for non-profit functions. However that state of affairs compelled me to evaluation all 600 photographs within the web site, attributing the license and the authors on all the pictures, and delete the pictures thought of unusable,” Augustin recounts.

In hindsight, Augustin sees that incident as a blessing in disguise, because it made the location’s group extra conscious and aware of copyright points.

“It additionally pushed me to do extra copyright analysis, which made me notice that their request was fully abusive. I stood as much as the accuser, and received every part straight.”

Future-Prepared Options for the Web site

One other problem that Revue Histoire needed to overcome was the location’s technical administration. With the earlier net host, the web site would go down continuously, and the shopper help wasn’t actually all that supportive.

What’s extra, server migration took a really very long time. With all this in thoughts, Augustin was searching for a extra intuitive net host till he got here throughout Hostinger on Instagram.

“Hostinger has saved me quite a lot of time in technical administration. Right now, I now not expertise the problems that I might’ve earlier than. It was fairly loopy.” Augustin laughs.

Just lately, Augustin switched to Hostinger’s new server in France, optimizing his website’s pace and consumer expertise much more. He additionally appreciates that the server was constructed with sustainability in thoughts – it’s 100% powered by renewable vitality.

“I additionally like how ergonomic hPanel is. The file editor is obtainable instantly within the dashboard – I don’t need to open an FTP shopper anymore. It’s all very intuitive. Some duties solely require just a few clicks,” he provides.

Final however not least, Augustin suggestions his hat to Hostinger’s Buyer Success group.

“Each time I had an inquiry or encountered an issue, they responded rapidly and resolved it. Even when it takes time, they’re at all times informative,” he says. “I can say that I’m an ultra-satisfied buyer.”

The place the Legacy Leads

Augustin has massive plans for Revue Histoire. First, he needs to include a web based bookstore into the location. Then, he needs to maneuver towards better recognition. Revue Histoire has already been referenced by larger publications and Wikipedia as a dependable supply.

Within the brief time period, his objective is to have 10,000 month-to-month customers. After that, he needs to monetize the location higher to earn sufficient to pay folks to run it.

Lastly, Augustin aspires to create a print journal.

“I wished a very-limited paper model of Revue Histoire. However the web site will nonetheless be the principle attraction as a result of with out it, the venture is nonexistent.”